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November 30, 2009 - Like most hand-wringing gaming controversies, the fuss over the Modern Warfare 2 airport massacre scene died down almost as quickly as it flared up. But the medium is certainly no stranger to the wider world getting in a pickle over those offensive polygons, and we've hand-picked a selection of the finest controversial gaming morsels for you to chew over...

May 7, 2008 - Whether it was Sonic Xtreme, Agartha, or Starcraft Ghost, we've all felt the merciless sting of the publisher's axe. Making a game is a long and difficult process, and a lot can go wrong along the way. Licenses change hands, systems rise and fall, and sometimes developers bite off more than they can chew. Most of the time, these games are aborted long before they're ever playable from beginning to end, or they get retooled into an entirely new project to live again on some other system.
But then there are those games that make it to the beta phase or even go gold, waiting just to be pressed and shipped to the public, only to be buried, forever gone from the public view. These are the greatest heartbreaks, not only for gamers but for the individuals that poured so much hard work into these games that would never see the light of day. IGN Retro would like to salute these originals that were taken from us moments too soon.
These are just some of the games that were shot down after they were playable from beginning to end. In part two, we'll pick up where we left off, after the end of the 16-bit era.

October 23, 2007 - Welcome back to IGN's (semi) weekly countdown of the exceptional, fascinating, and absurd: something we like to call Top 10 Tuesday. Each week we feature the top ten games, characters, fashion statements or whatever else we can think of that in some way relates to gaming and its history.